Records, 1808-1961 (bulk 1870-1905).

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Records, 1808-1961 (bulk 1870-1905).

Chiefly correspondence files of Michael Bouchet acting in his capacity as vicar general (1871-1903), including many letters addressed to Bishop McCloskey, who referred them to Bouchet for action. Also receipts and accounts of purchases (1840-1919); legal records and property deeds (1798-1914); parish records and surveys (1879-1832); case files on clergy and religious of the diocese (1880-1904); records of marriage cases, annulments, and dispensations (1887-1907); and subject files, including correspondence with the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in the Vatican (1817-1838), diocesan documents (1810-1861), correspondence of priests and other Catholics during the early years of the diocese, documents regarding the history of the diocese, reports of societies in the diocese, undated sermons, and other documents of the daily operations of the diocese and its priests and bishops. Correspondents include bishops Simon Bruté, Guy Ignatius Chabrat, Benedict Joseph Flaget, John Louis de Cheverus, John Lancaster Spalding, Martin John Spalding, Joseph Macheboeuf, Peter Joseph Lavialle, and William George McCloskey; Benedict Joseph Spalding and other members of the Spalding family; and Trappists of the Abbey of Gethsemani; with a diary of Bishop Flaget (1813?), photocopies of letters from Bishop Flaget to St. Sulpice Seminary in Paris (1808-1858), lectures and a thesis of Martin John Spalding, records of subscribers to the Louisville Cathedral (1849) and Rev. Stephen T. Badin's will. Microfilm contains a diary (1815) and a letter book (1828-1837) of Bishop Flaget, an account book of Bishop Chabrat (1835-1836), records of St. Francis Xavier Church in Marion County, Kentucky (1846-1912), a list of priests ordained by Bishop John Floersch (1923-1962), letters from priests of the diocese to Rev. Louis Deppen, editor of the Louisville Record, providing autobiographical information to be used in obituaries (1915), and other letters from bishops and priests of the diocese.

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Spalding, B. J. 1850?-1887.

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Flaget, Benedict Joseph, 1763-1850

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Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Bardstown. From the description of Benedict Joseph Flaget papers, 1806-1842. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 438895408 ...

Bouchet, Michael.

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Trappists

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Since the early nineteenth century Trappists has been the popular name for the main branch of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance who were centered at the Abbey of La Grande Trappe in France until the restoration of Citeaux as the motherhouse in 1892. The reform was originally introduced by Armand de Rance, godson of Richelieu, who was at an early age provided with a number of benefices, including that of commendatory abbot of La Trappe. In 1662 he resigned all his benefices except that of ...

Badin, Stephen T. 1768-1853.

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Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor José Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...

Catholic Church. Diocese of Bardstown (Ky.)

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On April 8, 1808 the Roman Catholic dioceses of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Bardstown (Ky.) were established. The Kentucy diocese included: "Kentucky, Tennessee, the Territories northwest of Ohio, and extending to the Great Lakes, and which lie between them and the diocese of Canada, and extending along them to the boundary of Pennsylvania ..." (p.308, The Catholic Church in Detroit, 1701-1888 by George Pare.) The bull erecting the Detroit Diocese was issued on March 20, 1827. Father Gab...

Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)

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Spalding, M. J. 1810-1872.

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Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor José Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...

Cheverus, John Louis Aime Madeleine Lefebvre de, 1768-1836.

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Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Louisville (Ky.)

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Erected in 1808 as the Diocese of Bardstown, a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, with Benedict Joseph Flaget as the first bishop. The see was transferred to Louisville in 1841. From the description of Records, 1808-1961 (bulk 1870-1905). (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25364937 ...

Spalding family.

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Bruté de Rémur, Simon William Gabriel, 1779-1839

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Macheboeuf, Joseph Projectus, 1812-1889.

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Spalding, John Lancaster, 1840-1916

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McCloskey, William George, 1823-1909.

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Lavialle, Peter Joseph, 1819-1867.

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Chabrat, Guy Ignatius, 1787-1868

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